1. Cooperative Learning & Active Engagement
Structures For
Cooperative Learning
&
Active Engagement
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2. Curriculum and Instruction
JoRae Myers
26 years of teaching
K-3rd Grade
ESL Endorsement
Masters Degree in
Curriculum and Instruction

3. My favorite hobby is gardening.
About Me
I have two daughters.
My favorite hobby is gardening.
I have been in a tornado.
Paddles for fibs

4. Find/Guess the Fib Classbuilding - Teambuilding:
Team shares some laughs as one teammate presents statements to their team and the other teammates work together to figure out which one of the statements is the fib.
Response Modes:
Thumbs up, thumbs down
Finger Responses - 1, 2, 3
Card Responses
Handout

5. Guess the Fib Partner Activity: Just the Fax - Favorite Movie
Use fib cards
Discuss the fib and make it correct
Make sure students correct the fib so students remember correct information.
BLM of Fax and Movie ticket to play: Guess the Fib in class
Fib paddles
Discussion

6. Find Someone Who Classbuilding:
Students need information from other students. Students answer and initial their response.
Variations:
People Hunt
Find Those Who
Fact Bingo
Handout - People Hunt example

7. Find Someone Who Classbuilding: Academic: Has a dog and a cat
Wears glasses
Skis in the winter
Academic:
Can count by 3’s to 51
Can identify a cloud type
Knows the capital
Can differentiate between fact and opinion
Has read the book…….
Handout

8. Find Someone Who Classbuilding - Teambuilding: Individuals Mixing
Turn-Taking
Classbuilding - Same age as you notebook pg. 36
Academic - Lang. Arts pg. 224
Math pgs. 90 & 91
Pg. 228 for handout

9. Housekeeping Cheerios/Cheer Box Quiet Signal
Hand up, signals others, Look!
Research states that a teacher can lose up to 18 school days trying to get students to quiet down.
Partners (shoulder, eyeball)
Hogs - Logs
Forming Teams (4)
Make note cards - Color code - Number team members
Sort Students
Change every 6 wks.
Team Names, cheers, handshakes, etc.
Cheer box with affirmations
Note cards of student team members
Team cards from whiteboard

10. Four Corners Classbuilding:
Students receive a prompt with four answer choices. They move to the corner of the room that corresponds to their answer choice. Discussion follows…
Response Modes:
Rallyrobin in Corners - Rally ideas w/partner
Roundrobin in Corners - Share ideas around the group
Paraphrase in Corners - become active listeners to points different than their own

11. Four Corners I am most like a…… My favorite story character is…
Shapes BLM notebook pg. 15
Cinderella, Jack, Goldilocks, Three Billy Goats Gruff

12. Line Ups
Each team receives one set of sequencing cards. Each student gets one card. Each teammate reads his/her card using Roundrobin. Students state where they should stand in the line. Team checks the finished sequence, makes adjustments if necessary and celebrates when correct.
Students find they each occupy a unique position in the team and teammates can see at a glance where everyone stands.
Handout

13. Line Ups Teams participate in line up samples: CELEBRATE
Teambuilding: Bedtime
Academic: Story sequence, ABC Order, Fraction Strips
CELEBRATE
Teambuilding: Time you went to bed last night.
Lang. Arts pg stories…
Alphabetical cards
Fraction cards

14. Day 2 Review: Structures: Cheerios/Cheer Box Quiet Signal
Hand up, signals others, Look!
Research states that a teacher can lose up to 18 school days trying to get students to quiet down.
Partners (shoulder, eyeball)
Structures:
Find/Guess the Fib Find Someone Who
Four Corners Line Ups

15. Fan - N- Pick
Each team receives the Fan-n-Pick mat, an identical text for each student on the team and a set of cards. The mat is placed in the center of the team table with each corner pointing to a student. Student #1 (Fan) holds question cards in a fan and says, “Pick a card, any card!”
Student #2 (Pick and Read) picks a card, reads the question and allows think time.
Student #3 (Answer) responds orally and/or shows the answer.
Student #4 (Check and Praise) responds to the answer by praising or coaching.
Then, the Fan-n-Pick mat is rotated and questioning continues.

16. FAN-N-PICK Story Elements: Count the Coins:
Knuffle Bunny - A CAUTIONARY TALE
BY: MO WILLEMS
Count the Coins:
KNUFFLE BUNNY
FAN-N-PICK materials
Math pgs

17. Talking Chips
Students may respond in any order, but they must place their talking chip in the center of the team table to indicate they’ve participated.
Review Chips
Tight Times by: Trina Schart Hyman
Chips
Review chips
Book Tight Times

18. Quiz - Quiz - Trade
Students quiz a partner, get quizzed by a partner and then trade cards to repeat the process with a new partner.
Lost & Found

19. Quiz Quiz Trade
Time
Homophones
Letter Patterns

20. Mix Freeze Group
The classroom is bursting with energy as students rapidly “Mix” around the room, “Freeze” in their tracks and frantically “Group” to avoid falling into the lost and found.
Students sharpen their listening and thinking skills because they must hear the question, solve it mentally and act quickly. Students interact with many classmates. Students feel needed and included by other classmates.

21. Mix Freeze Group
What’s My Sign?
BLM pg. 107
Music

22. Writing Round Table: Inside - Outside Circle:
1 paper, 1 pencil around the team.
Word Choice: Write a word that means eat.
Inside - Outside Circle:
In concentric circles, students rotate to face new partners and answer questions.
Spell My Word
Prewriting Circles
The amount of writing that students produce is in proportion to the amount of talking and processing that they get to do before they write.
Lang. Arts pg. 396

23. REMEMBER
Cooperative learning is defined by a set of processes which help people interact together in order to accomplish a specific goal or develop an end product. These sets of processes are structures.
Structures may be used to deliver a range of academic content, may be used repeatedly with almost every subject matter and at a large range of grade levels and at various points in a lesson plan.